Roland Schneider

Counter-tenor

Roland Schneider made his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Second Witch in this production in the 2010/11 season. He returned for Sciarrino's Luci mie traditrici, a joint project with the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte Montepulciano, where this first ever performances of the work in Italy took place. He recently sang Oronte in Maria Antonia Walpurgis' Talestri, regina delle amazzoni at the Kosmos Theater in Vienna. This countertenor has worked with the BR Orchestra (world premiere of Wilfried-Maria Danner's Die drei Kosmonauten/The Three Cosmonauts) and the RSO Berlin and has appeared at the Ruhrtriennale in Essen, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and Prinzregententheater in Munich. He enjoyed great success with a programme on Deutschland Radio Kultur called Heldengesang in höchsten Tönen/Heroic Singing for the Highest Voices.